DWCS3-1 - Dreamweaver CS3: Basic
Students who wish to familiarize themselves with the basic techniques used for creating websites using the Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 application. It also provides the fundamental knowledge and techniques needed to advance to more complex Dreamweaver operations for enhancing the functionality of websites
Getting started
Internet basics
Discussing the Web, HTML, and XHTML
The Dreamweaver workspace
Identifying Dreamweaver interface components
Creating a custom workspace
Working with the Property inspector
Editing pages
Discussing Web page elements
Inserting and editing text
Formatting text
Adding an image
Previewing a page in a browser
Code tools
Exploring code tools
Web sites and pages
Creating a Web site
Defining a site
Creating Web pages
Creating and titling Web pages
Importing text
Setting page properties
Setting a default text color
Text formatting
Text basics
Changing line breaks to paragraph breaks
Inserting special characters and spaces
Structure
Creating headings
Creating lists
Cascading Style Sheets
Discussing style sheets
Creating and attaching an external style sheet
Defining element styles
Creating class styles
Creating pseudo-element styles
Tables
Create tables
Creating a table
Creating a nested table
Table structure and formatting
Formatting rows
Adding columns and rows and formatting cells
Column widths and cell properties
Working with fixed and variable widths
Customizing cell properties
Layout tables
Creating a layout table
Working with layout cells
Adding content to a layout table
Images
Image formats and tags
Discussing image formats
Inserting images
Modifying image properties
Background images
Applying a background image
Links
Creating links
Creating a link to a page in your site
Creating and linking to a named anchor
Creating external links and e-mail links
Image maps
Creating an image map
Link styles
Applying link styles
Publishing
Site checks
Exploring Map view
Checking page size and download time
Checking links and cloaking files
Validating code
Web site publishing
Connecting to a server using secure FTP
Uploading a site
Updating a site